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4 Insight Orchestration provisioning and allocation
Insight Orchestration lifecycle operations
Insight Orchestration executes the following infrastructure lifecycle management operations:
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Create service Automatically provision infrastructure based on the specification in a service template,
using resources allocated from assigned pools
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Delete service Automatically de-provision existing infrastructure and free the resources for use in other
services
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Add servers to group Add servers to an existing infrastructure service, allocating and provisioning
them
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Add data disk to group Add data disks to an existing infrastructure service, allocating the disks and
attaching them to the appropriate servers
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Deactivate servers in group Deactivate servers and free server blade resources
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Activate servers in group Reactivate servers and allocate new server blade resources
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Change lease period Change the lease start or end dates for an infrastructure service
Create service operation
The Create Service operation automatically provisions an infrastructure based on the specification in a
service template, using resources allocated from assigned pools. During a Create Service operation, Insight
Orchestration:
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Validates the request
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Allocates network and IP addresses
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Allocates the servers (server blades or virtual machine hosts)
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Allocates the boot disk (physical and virtual)
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Obtains approval
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Creates virtual machine or blade server profile
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Deploys the operating system and other software to boot disk
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Configures the virtual hardware
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Customizes the operating system (networking, sysprep)
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Allocates the physical data disks
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Provisions the servers for data disks
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Boots the servers
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Executes custom actions
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Sends notifications
After successfully completing a Create Service operation, the provisioned Insight Orchestration infrastructure
service is available for the duration of the lease period and you can access the servers through the network.
A Create Service operation fails when:
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Resources are not available to allocate
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SAN administrator cannot create the disks
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Insight Orchestration administrator rejects the request
Delete service operation
When deleting a service, the Delete operation automatically deprovisions an existing infrastructure and
frees the resources for use in other services.
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